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Significant others: Italian adolescents' rankings compared with their parents
1Center of Studies and Research on Family, Catholic University of Milan, Italy. COLLCFAM@mi.unicatt.it
Psychological Reports
|May 21, 1999
Abstract:
In a study of social context in which adolescents live from an intergenerational perspective, the purpose was comparison of significant others of the generation of Italian adolescents (n = 595) and their parents' recalled others significant during adolescence (397 fathers and 416 mothers). Analysis showed the predominance of parents and above all the mother as the most significant others for both generations during adolescence. Further, today's adolescent generation attributed less importance to other unrelated adults than their parents recalled.